By U14, players should understand how their role contributes to the collective. Sessions are now high intensity, highly specific, and directly tied to how we want to play as a team.
Development Priorities
- Build tactical flexibility and situational awareness.
- Reinforce the full game model and team identity.
- Encourage leadership and responsibility on the field.
- Fine-tune execution of key patterns in all four moments.
How We Train
All exercises are designed with tactical, technical, and physical integration. Sessions include full-field scenarios, structured opposition, and tactical constraints. Weekly plans build toward executing sub-principles of our game model in match conditions.
- 2v2 & 3v3 Game Scenarios
- Agility & Movement
- Attacking Corners
- Attacking Principles (Width, Depth, Penetration)
- Ball Mastery
- Building from the Back
- Communication & Leadership
- Confidence on the Ball
- Creating Overloads
- Crossing & Finishing
- Decision Making
- Defending Corners
- Defending Principles (Delay, Deny, Deflect)
- Dribbling & 1v1
- Game Management
- Keeping Possession
- Passing & Receiving
- Playing Through the Thirds
- Pressing & Counter-Pressing
- Scanning & Awareness
- Shooting & Finishing
- Small-Sided Game Tactics
- Spacing & Support
- Switching the Point of Attack
- Third Man Runs
- Transition Play
- Turning & Shielding